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Description: | Sgra-snyan, long-necked lute, with plectrum. The wooden body is painted red with blue, green and gold decoration. Floral decorations on fingerboard. At the base of the fingerboard is a painting of a seated man, probably representing the guardian of the East, playing a long-necked lute. Skin soundtable painted green, wooden bridge. Three double courses of strings pegged from the sickle shaped pegbox, and one pegged from the neck. The pegbox terminates in a finial of a carved head of a dragon, with pink tassels. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | lutes wood metal nylon flint paint chordophones | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12961 |
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